Santander at Aston University

Aston University is part of the International Santander Universities network, which specialises in financing and supporting educational institutions.

Since joining the network, the bank’s gifts to the University have provided funding for undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships and awards, academic exchanges, support for entrepreneurial activities and research.

What the bank can offer you

Santander SME Internship Programme

The Santander Internship Programme is a scheme which provides final year students and recent graduates paid-for work experience with local business. This programme will be helping to create 500 new internship opportunities for students within local businesses. Santander is contributing 50% of the funding for the internship with the other 50% being funded by the SME. The Programme enables participating local businesses to recruit final year students and recent graduates. The internship will last for 3 months and the intern will receive 1000 per month from the Programme.

How to Apply

In order to apply for an internship you must first register with Santander Universities. You will then be able to view and apply for any of the available internships. For more information and to register please visit www.santander-grants.com

Santander is committed to encouraging and promoting enterprise at all stages of the business cycle. One area that needs more support is marketing brilliant ideas, which in a good deal of cases are born in the classrooms of many UK campuses. Enterprising undergraduates and graduates in the UK are invited to enter Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards, which offer a top prize to the best idea presented to an expert panel of judges. Previous winners have already launched their ventures into the market with great success.

The awards aim to support and encourage university students to pursue their business ideas and are open to students from all participating UK universities currently partnering with Santander Universities.

For more information on how to get support for enterprise at Aston, visit Aston Enterprise.